Electric Hydrogen is the green hydrogen industry’s first unicorn
Investors have historically been skeptical of green hydrogen. High production costs, expensive infrastructure builds, competition with batteries and minimal government
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Startups
TechCrunch+ Roundup: SBF’s trial opens, Series A tips, how to roll out AI features
Follow-on financing has become harder to raise, which leaves startups striving for a Series A in a real bind. Pre-downturn,
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Web3 funding is down again as the crypto winter drags on
Crypto pretty much seems to have lost its allure as far as venture capitalists are concerned. According to new data
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Queer social app Lex gets a new CEO and $5.6M to grow
Lex, the app inspired by vintage lesbian personals, just raised $5.6 million in seed funding and elevated co-founder Jennifer Lewis
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Kenyan legislative committee calls for Worldcoin shutdown in the country
A Kenyan parliamentary committee formed in August to investigate operations and activities of Sam Altman’s crypto project, Worldcoin, in the
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Where fintech is strongest as SBF heads to court
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind
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Procurement is painful, so Pivot wants to simplify it
Earlier this year, a big French tech company started requiring an email to the CEO for every purchase above €1,000.
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Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger says there’s a ‘flavor’ of Twitter in app’s latest release
The AI-powered news reading app Artifact, built by Instagram’s co-founders, has been transforming itself into a more social experience over
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Sample Series A pitch deck: Point.me’s $10M deck
Collecting points is a lifestyle for many. Getting great deals on flights, for example, by carefully collecting and spending points
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Why we’re seeing so many seed-stage deals in fintech
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you
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